re: Average Home Values for SEC Towns

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$279,600- Norman, OK

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Expensive arse single wide.

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Athens is an odd real estate bubble entirely dependent upon location within the bubble. Inside Athens proper is $600k-$1.5 mill, especially anything in Five Points or walkable to campus. I've seen 1 bed 1 bath houses selling for $1 mill but the buyers they're targeting are investment companies and rich parents of kids who want to rent the property out over 10-20 years.

Further yet get outside of the campus area, it shifts wildly both in price and quality; 316 west and 441 south into oconee is still $500k+. 441 north and Jefferson Hwy to the northwest as you go toward Jackson County ranges from $300k and then jumps back up toward the $900k mark the closer you get to Jefferon or Braselton/Hoschton. Moving toward the East to Winterville or northeast to Athens Tech and Southeast into Oglethorpe it can get more affordable but those are still pretty agrarian parts of the state so you're trading price for proximity.

All to say, you're not going to find anything in the $300k range anywhere close to campus

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Is this list factoring in Athens-Clarke county as a whole because of the merger? If it were just the original city limits of Athens it would definitely be 500+

Hell Nashville too

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I’m surprised Austin isn’t higher. I think that number has actually decreased a bit this year.

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I don't know how Zillow comes up with their values exactly, but the median sales price in April per the Austin Board of Realtors was $574k in April (the 12-month moving average, which I think is a better way to look at it, was $564k in April). That 12mma is down about 3% from April of last year. Too damn expensive, I'm thinking Athens is the place to be in terms of value.

Common theme that most all seem to notice and agree with- the areas listed at the top- kind of run into same issues- great areas, made attractive- attracts folks fleeing once great areas that have met serious decline - and those asshats come to the new areas and do the same shite that caused the decline in the areas they are fleeing.

All the while telling us how ignorant and backwards we are- makes sense

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$279,600- Norman, OK

Expensive arse single wide.

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We sure catch a lot of crap for mobile homes considering we rank only seventh in the SEC for mobile home residents per capita. And Tennessee, Florida, and Georgia are 8,9,10 behind us.

But I will say that one of the reasons that property in Norman is lower than it might otherwise be.... is that between WWII and about 1980... the developers in Norman put up some of the crappiest single family home developments I've seen just about anywhere. There some Pre WWII neighborhoods in Norman right around campus that are typically charming college neighborhoods... but get a half mile away from campus and there is a lot of mid century tacky stuff before you get to some decent developments.

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Auburn is a “family town” now. It used to be a college town.

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Yeah it really has blown up in size.

Since 1990, these Alabama counties have added the most population:

Madison (Huntsville): +194,600
Baldwin (coastal): +169,500
Shelby (suburban BHM): +139,200
Lee (Auburn): +102,700
Tuscaloosa: 90,846

These five counties represent over 60% of the entire growth for the state of Alabama during the past 35 years.

While Auburn and Tuscaloosa have each added close to the same number of people, from a % basis the growth in Auburn has been striking. Since 1990, Lee County has grown by 118%. Tuscaloosa a more manageable 60%.

Auburn is in danger of losing its character. It’s no longer a small college town. It’s become a magnet for families and even young professionals. There’s a lot of good things that come with that, but it’s also no longer the Auburn many of us knew from our time there.

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I’m curious what policies pushed by UT do you think ruined it?

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All the gaymansex with Aggy

Um, ok.